Cheshire West & Chester Council is now fitting Aico’s Ei3030 multi-sensor alarms across its housing stock during all upgrade programmes and where replacements are needed, with the alarm fittings carried out by teams from Liberty Group. With three sensors (optical, heat & carbon monoxide) in one unit to ensure accurate fire and carbon monoxide detection,…
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New social value guides to home sensors
Dr Tim Walker, a research fellow at the University of Exeter, discusses the findings from a research project on the social value of home sensor systems in housing. Sensor systems and housing The quality of indoor home environments has a profound effect on the health and wellbeing of residents, particularly vulnerable groups. Issues such as…
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Guinness gets smart with Aico
The Guinness Partnership is introducing Aico’s HomeLink environmental monitoring system across its properties in the South West of England. The package of work includes IoT-based smart sensors and data analytics software. Tim Lewry, regional head of service, Guinness Partnership, said, “Our collaboration with Aico on its HomeLink system has been exceptional. The expertise and dedication…
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Wrexham CBC live with Asprey Assets
Wrexham County Borough Council has just completed its implementation of new cloud-based asset management software from Asprey Management Solutions to support its portfolio of 15,000 properties and assets. Asprey’s software will also be used by the council to ensure its regulatory compliance, faster and better service delivery and end-to-end processing for its staff and business…
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Local authorities’ arrears up by 70 per cent – Access PaySuite
Local authorities’ rent arrears have increased by more than 70 per cent in the last five years, according to Access PaySuite. Based on over 80 responses to Access PaySuite’s FoI requests to local authorities, the company has created its new Rental Arrears Index (accesspaysuite.com/rental-arrears-index-2024). Local authorities providing social housing are owed an average of £3.1…
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CalQRisk introduces ESG reporting for housing
With environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors becoming part of most housing providers’ operational considerations, CalQRisk has launched its Carbon Accounting & ESG Reporting system for social housing to help organisations measure their carbon emissions, enhance their ESG reporting capabilities and meet sustainability goals. CalQRisk said that its new one-stop platform enables housing providers to…
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